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📚 **The best of 2025**
"_The books that everyone was talking about this year_"
🇺🇸 **America’s $38 trillion national debt ‘exacerbates generational imbalances’ with Gen Z and millennials paying the price, warns think tank**
🔗 https://fortune.com/2025/12/16/us-national-debt-generationa-imbalances-research-think-tank/.
📚 **The Complete English Literature Reading List**
🔗 https://adamgagewalker.substack.com/p/the-complete-english-literature-reading.
**How to read a poem**
"_Ideally over a lifetime, says New Yorker’s Kevin Young_"
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/12/how-to-read-a-poem/.
🎥 **Modern Myths about the Age of Homer**
"_Archaeologist Bryan Burns surveys ancient finds from Troy and Mycenae and their connection to Homeric epics, addressing common misconceptions about the Late Bronze Age in scholarship and popular culture._"
🇨🇦 🇬🇧 **Linguistic experts urge Carney government to stop using British spellings**
"_Advocates say government should utilize (not 'utilise') Canadian English in official documents_"
🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/carney-criticized-for-british-spelling-9.7015702.
#Linguistics #English #Language #Spelling #Canada #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom
**Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century**
"_Here, using three global glacier models, we project a sharp rise in the number of glaciers disappearing worldwide, peaking between 2041 and 2055 with up to ~4,000 glaciers vanishing annually._"
Van Tricht, L., Zekollari, H., Huss, M. et al. Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02513-9.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Environment #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Glaciers #Academia
🇮🇹 **Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy**
"_The community shows closer genetic affinity to Early Bronze Age Sicilians than to contemporaneous populations from the Italian peninsula. However, unlike contemporary Sicilian individuals, they lack eastern genetic influences, suggesting distinct ancestral trajectories and interaction networks among Bronze Age populations._"
Fontani, F., Larocca, F., Cilli, E. et al. Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy. Commun Biol 8, 1766 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09194-2.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Demography #Science #Biology #Consanguinity #Genetics #History #BronzeAge #Italy #Academia
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Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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